Camera - April 14, 1923 to February 16, 1924 (April 1923-February 1924)

12th, 1024 Camera !" The Digest of the Motion Picture Industry Page 19 About the Peace Award ■ h deep satisfaction I present for the contion and vote of the American people the selected by the Jury as entitled to the can Peace Award under the conditions. Award brought forth 22,165 plans. many of them were the composite work anizations, universities, etc., a single plan represented the views of hundreds or nd> of individuals. There were also ed several hundrd thousand of letters , while they did not submit plans, sug in almost each instance a solution of the problem. • Jury had therefore before it an index : true feeling and judgment of hundreds Bands of American citizens. The plans from every group in American life. were obviously from life-long students tory and international law. Some were [persons who have studied little, but who themselves seen and felt the horror of \or who are even now living out its Svever unlike, they almost ail express or ■ the same conviction: That this is the (■for the nations of the earth to admit lay that war is a crime and thus withdraw hflgal and moral sanction t io I ing permited I it as a method of settling international lifles. Thousands of plans show a deep isfltion to have the United States take the flfln a common agreement to brand war in ;^«ruth an "outlaw." Tj plans shows a realization that no ade[ittj defense against this situation has thus ar een dev ised ; and that no international ^Bas been developed to control it. They ioflout that security of life and property is ■Went upon the abolition of war and dHon of the manufacture of raiinn ms oi fle of the plans labor with the problem of aSng the hearts ot men and disposing them o»ll peace and good will; some labor to indl practicable means of dealing with the tflnic causes of war; some labor with adUSH; racial animosities, with producing a iKonception of nationalism, etc., etc. T|ough the plans as a whole run these MHant currents: ^|t, if war is honestly to be prevented, henmust be a right-about-face on the part if tj nations in their attitude toward it; and Ml some progressive agreement the manuactle and purchase of the munitions of war DIBpe limited or stopped. Tit while no political mechanism alone will IMD cooperation among the nations, there nuAhe some machinery of cooperation if the ivillji cooperate is to be made effective; that nut tl counsel among the nations is the real I'ipi or bringing about the disavowal of war 'y tj open avowal of its real causes and open iincUion of them. Filly, that there must be some means of Itfiiig, recording, interpreting and developing |e law of nations. / Tj Jury of Award unanimously selected the plan i ven below as the one which most closely ftfltj;d several of (hese currents. I T Honorable Elihu Root, chairman of the VunJif Award, then prepared the following lorvjrd-looking statement indicating that the routjl counsel and cooperation among the nation provided in the selected plan may lead 10 'lj realization of another — and not the least Continued on Page 20 WINNING PLAN— No 1469— Selected by Jurv of American Peace Aw a rd— Created by Edward W. Bok and Offering $100,000 for the Best Practicable Plan by Which the I'nited States May Cooperate with Other Nations, Looking Toward the Prevention ot War. Statement of Jury of Award The Jury of Award realizes that there is nj one approach to world peace, and that it is necessary to recognize not merely political but also psychological and economic factors. I he only possible pathway to international agreement with reference to these complicated and difficult factors is through mutual counsel and cooperation which the plan selected contemplates It is therefore the unanimous opinion of the Jury that of the 22,165 plans submitted. Plan Number 1469 is "the best practicable plan by which the United States may cooperate with other nations to achieve and preserve the peace of the world." It is the unanimous hope of the Jury that the first fruit of the mutual counsel and cooperation among the nations which will result from the adoption of the plan selected will be a general prohibition of the manufacture and sale of all materials of war. Elihu Root, Chairman Ellen Fitz Pendleton James Guthrie Harbord Roscoe Pound Edward M. House William Allen White Brand Whitlock The Question to be Voted Upon The substantial provisions which constitute the plan selected by the Jury of Award, and upon which the vote of the American people is asked, are hereby submitted by the Policy Committee as follows: I. ENTER THE PERMANENT COURT That the United States adhere to the Permanent Court of International Justice for the reasons and under the conditions stated by Secretary Hughes and President Harding in February, 1923. II COOPERATE WITH THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS, WITHOUT. FULL MEMBERSHIP AT PRESENT That without becoming a member of the League of Nations as at present constituted, the United States Government should extend its present cooperation with the League and propose participation in the work of its Assembly and Council under the following conditions and reservations : Safeguarding -if Monroe Doctrine 1. The United States accepts the League of Nations as an instrument of mutual counsel, but it will assume no obligation to interfere with political questions of policy or internal administration of any foreign state. ■ In uniting its efforts with those of other States for the preservation of peace and the promotion of the common welfare, the United States insists upon the safeguarding of the Monroe Doctrine and does not abandon its traditional attitude concerning American independence of the Old World and does not consent to submit its long established policy concerning questions regarded by it as purely American to the recommendation or decision of other Powers. A'o Military or Economic Force 2. The only kind of compulsion which nations cin freely engage to apply to each other in the name of' Peace is that which arises from conference, from moral judgment, from full publicity, and from the power of public opinion. The United States will assume no obligations under Article X in its present form, or under Article XVI in its present form in the Covenant, or in its amended form as now prounless in any particular case Congress has authorized such action. The United States proposes that Article X and XVI be either dropped altogether or so amended and changed as to eliminate any suggestion of a general agreement to use coercion for obtaining conformity to the pledges of the Covenant. A'o Obligations Under Versailles Treaty 3. The United States will accept no responsibilities under the Treaty of Versailles unless in any particular case Congress has authorized such action. League Open to All Nations s The United States Government proposes that Article I of the Covenant be construed and applied or if necessarv, redrafted, so that adnrssion to the League shall be assured to any selfgoverning State that' wishes to join and that receives the favorable vote of two-thirds of the Assembly. Development of International La<w 5 As a condition of its participation in the wor'i and counsels of the League, the United States asks that the Assembly and Council consent— or obiain authority— to begin collaboration for the revision and development of international law, employing for this purpose the aid of a commission of jurists. This Commission would be directed to formulate anew existing rules of the law of nations, to reconcile divergent opinion-, to consider points hiihrrto inadequately provided for but vital to the maintenance of international justice, and in general to define the social rights and duties of States. The recommendations of the ( ommission would be presented from time to time, in proper form for c msidcra.ion. to the Assembly as to a recommending if not a law-making body. Author s Name Not to He Revealed Until After Referendum In order that the vote mnv be taken solely upon the merits of the plan, the ! Policj ( ommil ee. with the acouiescence of Mr. Bok, has decided no, to disclose the authorship ol .he plan until after ,he referendum, or early in February. The identity of .he author is unknown to the member, of ury of Award and the Policy Committee, except one delegated member. The Policy Committee Iohn w. Dav.s vnJrs £ctbn Rf» Lear N ed Hand ^M. Frank. ;n l>. W......AM H. Johnston ' »«* Stimsok FSTHER FvFRFTT LAPE Mf.l.VII.I.E fc. S To V I Esther Everett la ^ y |(, Nathan L. Mi'i.er ( «"«.«» N. Buss. Jr. Mrs. Gifford P.nchot Treasurer posed the Roosevelt